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ArtF wrote: Sat Dec 24, 2022 12:48 pm very sweet.. Must be a hell of a laser.

Art

Bog standard cheapish Chinese 1kW fiber laser.

On a CNC lathe, C-axis is indexing control of the spindle. Used when milling with live tooling in the turret. With Y-axis on the turret you can mill off-center.

https://media.machines4u.com.au/machine ... 3432.l.jpg

That is a really cool machine. You will be able to make some really cool kinetic art pieces with that.
Dan


Thanks, I hope that will be the case. However I may end up being too busy with cutting jobs for customers that I will struggle to get some play time squeezed in.

I'd like to give the ...

This machine is not on their website but it's basically a slightly smaller version of their 3015 machine.

https://www.cnclaserlm.com/Fiber-laser- ... 72933.html

I can just about manage mod0.5 in thin materials. Once the width of the tooth goes below the thickness of the sheet, then burning starts to become an issue.

Didn't time it - probably less than a minute. 1kW is small stuff by todays standards. 6kW seems the norm with the big guys.

Here is one being cut in 1mm steel: https://www.instagram.com/p/BtfvrBshufk/

Just cut these mod2 gears on the fiber laser. 3mm carbon steel. Good enough for kinetic art pieces.

The gears will probably be in the 3-6mm range.

I've cut loads of wood and plastic gears on my CO2 lasers and they work fine in my marble machine kits where there is little load.

Hi All

In about a months time I will receive a 1kW fiber laser for cutting metal. I hope to be able to cut functional gears on it. I know they will not be suitable for heavy duty use as the cut faces aren't perfectly straight on a laser. However I hope they will be good enough for light duty in ...